Arch-installer

This script will automate the installation of Arch Linux. Will install the base Arch Linux system along with some other extra packages, as well as some optional packages. A AUR(Arch User Repository). helper called 'Yay' will also be installed. Below is the list of tasks that the script does, in order of execution.

Ask to selected drive that will be use for the install of Arch. All data on drive will be "wiped".
Ask for the Hostname for the computer
Ask for a Password for root user
Ask for Username for a normal user account
Ask for a Password for given Username
Optional package selection
Speed rate the pacman mirror list
Wipe the selected drive and uses GPT for the partition scheme
Setup the first partition as a 512M EFI partition
The seconed as a 2GB swap partition
The rest of the drive will be the main root(/) partition
Installs all required packages
Setup fstab
Install rEFInd bootloader
Setup user account
Config network interface to use DHCP, using systemd-networkd as the network manager
Common system configurations & optimizations
Packman hooks to update 'mirrors', bootloader & remove old cached pacman files
Install AUR Helper

Packages

Explicit Packages

base = Base arch linux system packages
base-devel = Base packages to compile packages from aur
refind-efi = UEFI Boot Manager - Built with GNU-EFI libs

Optional Packages

openssh = Free version of the SSH connectivity tool
reflector = Retrieve and filter the latest Pacman mirror list
mlocate = Merging locate/updatedb implementation
pkgfile = A pacman files metadata explorer
pacman-contrib = Contributed scripts and tools for pacman systems

Aur Packages

yay = Pacman wrapper and AUR helper written in go.

Extra Packages

alsa-utils = An implementation of Linux sound support -- If audio device is detected
open-vm-tools = Open source implementation of VMware Tools -- If running in a VMware environment
virtualbox-guest-utils = VirtualBox Guest userspace utilities -- If running in a VirtualBox environment
qemu-guest-agent = QEMU/KVM Guest userspace utilities -- If running in a QEMU/KVM environment

Download & Run

Download the latest ISO from archlinux.org, then boot into the live ISO(Archiso). Once the installer boots, run the following commands to download and execute the install script.

$ curl -SLO https://github.com/fordetek/arch-installer/archive/master.tar.gz
$ tar zxf master.tar.gz && cd arch-installer-master
$ sh base.sh